Is that different from a company doing R&D without releasing the results to the public? Experts working for private gain is the norm, not the exception. That k

Is that different from a company doing R&D without releasing the results to the public? Experts working for private gain is the norm, not the exception. That kind of work also sounds incredibly boring. They probably have to pay their experts a lot more than it would normally cost to hire the same caliber of experts. Which would mean they are not generating very much private data.